linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix mmap MAP_POPULATE for DAX pmd mapping

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Date:	Wed, 2 Dec 2015 14:03:46 -0800
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
	mauricio.porto@....com, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix mmap MAP_POPULATE for DAX pmd mapping

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com> wrote:
> On 12/02/2015 12:54 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com> wrote:
>>> > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 11:57 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
>> [..]
>>>> >> The whole point of __get_user_page_fast() is to avoid the overhead of
>>>> >> taking the mm semaphore to access the vma.  _PAGE_SPECIAL simply tells
>>>> >> __get_user_pages_fast that it needs to fallback to the
>>>> >> __get_user_pages slow path.
>>> >
>>> > I see.  Then, I think gup_huge_pmd() can simply return 0 when !pfn_valid(),
>>> > instead of VM_BUG_ON.
>> Is pfn_valid() a reliable check?  It seems to be based on a max_pfn
>> per node... what happens when pmem is located below that point.  I
>> haven't been able to convince myself that we won't get false
>> positives, but maybe I'm missing something.
>
> With sparsemem at least, it makes sure that you're looking at a valid
> _section_.  See the pfn_valid() at ~include/linux/mmzone.h:1222.

At a minimum we would need to add "depends on SPARSEMEM" to "config FS_DAX_PMD".
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